CVE-2017-17846

Description

An issue was discovered in Enigmail before 1.9.9. Regular expressions are exploitable for Denial of Service, because of attempts to match arbitrarily long strings, aka TBE-01-003.

References

https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users%40enigmail.net/msg04280.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4070

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00333.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00021.html

https://enigmail.net/download/other/Enigmail%20Pentest%20Report%20by%20Cure53%20-%20Excerpt.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3